THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19TH, 1924.
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THE PLIMSOLL LINE CENTENARY OF ITS ORIGINATOR.
Samuel Plimsoll, who was born at Bristol a hundred years ago today, was a London coal merchant, with no first- hand knowledge of conditions at sen, but be earned for himself the title, of "The Sailors. Friend" by his genuine devotion to and valuable services for the cause of the mercantile marine.
"Mr. J. Havelock Wilson, the founder and preseus president of the Sailors' Urion, co-operated for a number of years with Mr. Plimsoll in his great fight. In a chat the other day Mr. Wilson describ ed Plimsoll as peculiar man, an enthusiast, one who spared neither hin- self nor those who worked with him. "He has made me get up at four o'clock in the morning" he said, to go down to the docks to take snapshots of ships, And I have been at his house in Park- Inne and seen Plimsoll's wife and daugh- ter at two or three o'clock in the morn- ing busy getting out pamphlets."
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Mr. Wilson recalled hots on one pera. sion Plimsoll asked him how many widows and orphans of merchant seament he supposed there were in the country. "Well, then." He replied about 3,000, said Plinstall, on the day Parliament RUSSO-ASIATIC
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opens next week I want you to gather them all together on the Thames Embank... Carmat (FULLY-FALD) ment, and with hands and banners to march them round by the Houses of Parliament. "Of course," he added. demon- you know the penalty for a stration of that sort at Wetaminster is But never six weeks' imprisonment. mind that: you will become one of the Mr. most popular men in the country." Wilson did not seize this chaver of aching. ing popularity.
A SCENE IN THE HOUSE. Plimsoll Hirst came before the public as the sailors' champion in 1972, when he published Our Seamen: peal," in which he showed that a largë propertion of the merchant seamen who perished at sea lost their lives from pre-
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An APPARs: Sosiate Generale pour Favoriser le
Developpement du Commerce et de l'adv tris en France.
1906 de Paris et des Pays-Bas,
Societe Generale pour Favoriser la
I veutable causes, such as overloaded deck me of do Commerce et de l'adas
cargoes and unseaworthy ships. This pamphlet was severely criticised on the ground that it contained gross exagger- tions and inaccuracies.
The public conscience, however. was stirred, and a Commission of Inquiry was appointed to investigate the allegations.
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airon
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L. BAINES,
Manager.
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In July, 1875, Disraeli announced that the Government proposed to withdraw a Merchant Shipping Bill which had been. under discussion for some time. This so excited Plimsoll that he quite lost control of himself and made use of the most condem- unparliamentary language in nation of the shipowners. He refused to withdraw his remarks and was asked to retire. A week later be apologised, and a motion for his reprimand was with:
March 18th at 17:10-Pressure has ċe- drawn. The effect of this "scene to direct public Attention very pointedly creased considerably at Chefoo and slightly to the abandonment of the Bill and meet over Formosa and the neigbouring coast; it ings of protest were held all over the has increased slightly over the Philippines country. After much excitement an Act The anticyclone remains stationary over 2 was passed on August 13th, 1975, to ex-Chish monsoon will prevail along the coast tend the powers of the Board of Trade to stop unseaworthy ships.
"THE LINE."
"was
WEATHER REPORT.
N.
60d over the north part of the China Sea.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 18 hours, 18th March, 0.00 inch. Total since January lat, 5.68 inches, against an average af 465 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending
FORECAST 18 hours, Mar. 18th l sa follows:
winds, strong
Formosa Channel
A
to a gale,
The Plimsoll Line" is the mark painted on the hull of every British vessel, with the exception of certain small craft, to indicate that the ship may be londed until the water renches the line. The official line became compulsory in 1890, when the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee of three yea before were given effect to through the efforts of Plimsoll and Havelock son Hongkong to Gap Rock N.E. winds, fresh; Prior to that date every ship had to bave a load-line painted on her, hut it could be fixed wherever the owner pleased. One shipowner. Mr. Wilson told me, in order to show his contempt for the law had the load-line painted at the top of his steamer's funnel.
Plimsoll died at Folkestone on June 3rd, 1808. The Times obituary notice. conclaried with the words: "We forget his absurdities, we draw a veil over his Iack self-control, we almost pardon his exaggerations (which continue to the end), and his recklessness of accusa- tion, when we remember that the evil which he attacked was real and gigantic, and that the ferocity of his attacks aras the outpouring of the indignation of a sincere if not always well-regulated mind."
SEEING UNDER WATER.
A POWERFUL AID TO SUBMARINE WARFARE.
A young Italian sesentist and aval expert, Professor Leandro Guglielmutzi of Civitavecchia, claims to have dis covered a process which will overcome the law of refraction and enable people to see under water. The invention has special reference to submarines Profer Gug lichnotti suga
The first idea of this discovers cam to me in 1916, when submarine warfare was at its height. I realised how helpless suparines becoms once they are totally
are, and it occurred to me how
would
their naval and strategic
pow
be increased if only a means could be found to enable the crews to see under water. The law of the refraction of light to presented an almost insuperable obstacle
in the aid this posibility. I had to
of another element, and after long studies method and patient research, I devised a by
which
a line
of light could he made to pierce the water, and at the same time be invisible to aircraft watching overhead."
Professor Guglielmetti's apparatus, ta be fitted to subruarines, would, it is said, project shafts of invisible light through the stater which would illuminate any body coming in the direction of their rays. it would act within a radius of from 700 10 900 feet, and at a depth of about fifty foot. Submarines would thus be able to detect the presence of obstacles even with their periscopes totally submerged.
Bonth coast of Chins betworn
Hongkong and Lamooks) South coast of Chins between
Hongkong and Hainan
fair.
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Datrenger Leonmmetadon, salings from both parts Saturday, so 11 LINE-Bailings approximately weekly for LI-Fortnightly all
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magere and urge
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